Literature and Nationalist Ideology

Hans Harder teaches Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany.

• Introduction- Hans Harder 2. Shaping a Literary Space: Early Literary Histories in Malayalam and Normative Uses of the Past- Udaya Kumar 3. Drowning in the Ocean of Tamil: Islamic Texts and the Historiography of Tamil Literature- Torsten Tschacher 4. From Scattered Archives to the Centre of Discourse: Histories of Telegu Literature in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century- Heiko Frese 5. Beyond the nation: A Comparatist’s Yhoughts on Some Foundational Categories in the Literary Historiography of South Asian Literatures- Ipshita Chanda 6. Dineshchandra Sen’s The Folk Literature of Bengal: The Canonisation of Folk and the Conception of the Feminine- Sourav Kargupta 7.Ethics or Aesthetics? Obscenity as a Category for Evaluating the Hindi Public sphere in Colonial North India- Charu Gupta 8. George Abraham Grierson’s Literary Hindustan- Ira Sharma 9. The impact of Sectarian Lobbyism on Hindi Literary Historiography: the Fascinating Story of Bhagvadacharya Ramanandi- Purshottam Agrawal 10. The Politics of Exclusion? The Place of Muslims, Urdu and its Literature in Ramachandra Shukla’s Hindi sahitya ka itihas- Navina Gupta 11. A Discourse of Difference: ‘Syncretism’ as a Category in Indian Literary History- Thomas de Brujin 12. Unscripted: The People of Arunachal Pradesh in Literary and Other National Histories- Stuart Blackburn 13. Indian Literature in English and the Problem of Naturalisation- Hans Harder 14. The Mahatma as Proof: The Nationalist Origins of the Historiography of Indian Writing in English- Snehal Shingavi